Pompeii Reading Comprehension

What is the correct name for the people who had to dig to uncover the streets of Pompeii?

• Street sweepers

• Garbage Collectors

• Archeologists

• Historians

Name the mountain beside Pompeii?

• Vesuvius

• Etna

• Jebel Jais

• Krakatoa

The disaster provides a clear model of life in ....

• Viking Times

• The Stone Age

• The Roman Empire

• The Industrial Revolution

Empty shells remain after ....

• The streets were uncovered

• The bodies decayed

• The archeologists left

• The volcano erupted.

Look at paragraph 2 in Pompeiil. Reorder the statements to show the chronological order that they occur in the text.

• Then, at around midday, a huge cloud of burning hot gas and rocks filled the sky.

• Many people ran for the coast

• .Some went to fetch their belongings.

• The morning of 24 August was just like any other.

• In August of the year 79CE, there had been some earth tremors in Pompeii, but the people weren't worried.

Look at the sentences below. Reorder them to show the order the words occur in the sentence.

• sky

• midday

• burning hot

• rocks

Mount Vesuvius erupted on which date?

• 24th August

• 24th March

• 24th April

• 24th September

When were Pompeii's wall paintings seen?

• 1792

• 1569

• 1592

• 1952

Which of the following filled the air after the most powerful eruption?

• sunshine

• rain

• ash

• rocks

What flowed through the city?

• magma

• trade

• people

• volcanoes